The Latin word for rock is
saxum
Translations for rock and their definitions
| saxum | |
| 1. n. stone, rock (a large, rough fragment of rock) | |
| 2. n. (by extension) wall of stone |
| rupes | |
| 1. n. cliff, rock |
| silex | |
| 1. n. pebble, stone, flint | |
| 2. n. rock, crag | |
| 3. n. lava |
| lapis | |
| 1. n. a stone | |
| 2. n. a milestone | |
| 3. n. a boundary stone | |
| 4. n. gravestone, tombstone | |
| 5. n. lapis manalis ("stone of manes"), which covers the gate of Hades or underworld | |
| 6. n. a stone platform at a slave auction | |
| 7. n. a statue | |
| 8. n. (poetic) jewel, precious stone |
| scopulus | |
| 1. n. crag, cliff (projecting rock) | |
| 2. n. rock (in/under the sea) |
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